Turdidae

Saxicola rubetra hesperophila
Clancey, 1950: 370

Current name:
Saxicola rubetra (monotypic)

Whinchat
1 paratype

Paratype: ZMA 7956, adult male, Knapdale (Argyllshire, SW Scotland, U.K.), collected 19 Jul 1948 by P.A. Clancey; wing c. 75 (heavily worn), tail 44, bill to skull 13.9, tarsus 21.1.

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Additional information
The holotype is in the RSME (Clancey coll.), an adult male breeding, Newton Mearns (E Renfrewshire, SW Scotland), collected 19 Jun 1937 by P.A. Clancey; wing 76.5, tail 45, exposed culmen 13.5, tarsus 23. The series examined by Clancey consisted of 55 birds (7 breeding males and 9 breeding females, 10 males and 11 females from autumn, and 18 juveniles), originating from "Scotland, Ireland, and the mountain districts of north and west England" (Clancey 1950). The bird in ZMA was used by Clancey when defining the characters of his new taxon, and thus is one of the paratypes.

Measurements
As far as types in the ZMA are concerned, all measurements were taken by C.S. Roselaar, unless otherwise noted, using the methods as described in Svensson (1992) and comparable with the data published in the Handbook of Western Palearctic Birds. All are in mm, and are given to the nearest mm when taken with a ruler and to one-tenth of a mm when measured with calipers.

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